Address on the 30th Anniversary of the
Communist Party of China

COMRADES! Today is the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Thirty years ago
when our Party was just founded, there
were in China only some small groups,
with very few members, which studied
and publicised Marxism.

But today our Party has developed into
a big party leading the great People's
Republic of China. Our Party now has
5,800,000 members. Among these more
than 2,700,000 are serving in the armed
forces, state organs, factories, mines and
schools and over 3,000,000 are distributed
throughout the countryside. There are over 600,000
women members and over 1,200,000 young members
under the age of 25. These members have built
about 250,000 Party branches, the primary organisations of the Party.

Many members of our Party are shouldering
leading tasks in various spheres of work of the State.
Still more are engaging in various physical labours
or mental work side by side with the labouring people and fighters in various factories, mines, villages,
government offices, schools and army units. They
are closely linked with the broad masses of the
people. The great majority all possess a high
standard of political consciousness, and therefore, too,
a spirit of selflessness. Whether on the battlefield, in
physical labour or in any other kind of work, they
are full of courage, with no thought for themselves;
they are intelligent and resolute and very capable in
giving over all consideration to things and in abiding
by the discipline of the people. They are, therefore,
able to win the trust of the masses and the masses
treat them as their most intimate and trustworthy
friends. In other words, our Party has already become a universally recognised leader of the people
throughout the country and, at the same time, a
public servant whole-heartedly at the service of the
people.

This summarises the situation of our Party today.

Our Party is the greatest, most glorious and most
consistently correct party in the history of
China.

Our Party, which started with a few individual
Marxist groups, has traversed a superlatively brilliant
path of historical development in the past 30 years.

However, in these 30 years of great revolutionary
struggles, our Party has also been through unimaginably hard, complicated and circuitous struggles.

For 30 years, the enemies facing the Communist
Party of China and the Chinese people have included
almost all the imperialist countries in
the world and the strong forces of
feudalism and of the bureaucratic, comprador, big bourgeoisie of China. These
have been most diabolical enemies. They
did not give the Communist Party of
China and the Chinese people any freedom of action. They dealt out savage
slaughter and torture to the Communists,
attempting to kill them all off. In the
face of such enemies, if the Chinese Communists had not taken up arms and entered on a persistent and unswerving armed
struggle against the enemy it would
have been impossible to carry on revolutionary
activity. Because of this, the Chinese Communists
and the revolutionary Chinese people long ago took
to arms in the struggle against their enemies, waged
four great revolutionary wars over the course of
more than 20 years and finally overthrew the rule
of these enemies on Chinese soil and achieved the
victory for the Chinese revolution. This victory is
of great significance in China's history and also in
world history.

The winning of this victory must, first of all, be
ascribed to those countless martyrs, whether Party
members or not, known or unknown, who have
bravely sacrificed themselves in the revolutionary
struggles.

Comrades! It would have been impossible to
defeat our powerful and vicious enemies and achieve
the victory for the revolution without the struggle
of the countless martyrs who kept up the fight and
sacrificed themselves bravely. Our martyrs' selfless,
courageous spirit of sacrifice on the execution grounds
of the enemy, on the fields of battle and in all kinds
of struggles crystalises the best traditions of our
nation and our Party and provides the loftiest pattern
for all our Party members and the people of the
whole country. To liberate the people and fulfill the
tasks entrusted to them by the Party, they shed their
last drop of blood and exhausted their last energies
without stint or hesitation. It is mete that we learn
from their spirit and commemorate it forever.
Eternal glory to the spirit of the martyrs!

I propose that we all stand and observe three
minutes' silence in memory of the martyrs, both members of the Party and non-members, who sacrificed
themselves bravely in the revolutionary struggles of
the past 30 years.

Then again, in celebrating the 30th anniversary
of the founding of our Party, we must not forget
those comrades who have lost their health as a result
of tortures in the enemy's lawcourts and of long,
grinding imprisonment, and those comrades who were
maimed after being wounded on the battlefield and
in the struggle. Here let us pay them our respects.

The victory of our Party and the Chinese revolution is inseparable from the correct,
Marxist-Leninist leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-
tung, leader of our Party. Marxism-Leninism is the
sole correct ideological weapon to guide our Party
and the Chinese. people in uniting ourselves and
triumphing over the enemy. Comrade Mao Tse-tung
is learned in Marxism-Leninism and is most adept
in applying it properly to solving the diverse problems of China's revolution.

Thirty years of prodigious effort by Comrade
Mao Tse-tung has, step by step, integrated the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete
revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people. These
efforts have thus built our Party, in ideology and
organisation, on the example of the Bolshevik Party
of the Soviet Union. And they have, step by step,
linked our Party with more and more of the masses
of the people.

Moreover, at each of the stages of the revolution,
Comrade Mao Tse-tung put forward correct principles, tasks and policies for the revolutionary
struggle for our Party and the people; and, in extremely complicated and difficult circumstances, he
defeated the erroneous principles, tasks and policies
put forward by the various kinds of opportunists
within the Party and the various sects outside the
Party. In this way, he fashioned and strengthened
the People's Liberation Army as the cardinal instrument of the Chinese people's revolution. In this
way, he formed, consolidated and expanded the
United Front of the Chinese people's revolution.

It is only because our Party and the Chinese
people have had this correct leadership of Comrade
Mao Tse-tung that we have been able, step by step,
to defeat the strong enemy in serious, long and
complicated struggles and gain the present victory.
The correct leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-tung has
been decisive for the victory of our Party and the
Chinese people in the revolutionary struggle. Without Comrade Mao Tse-tung's correct leadership at
each of these various stages, it can be said that it
would have been impossible for our Party and the
Chinese people to win the present victory. Comrade Mao Tse-tung's correct leadership guarantees
that our Party and the Chinese people will continue
to win more and bigger victories in the revolutionary
struggle ahead.

Therefore, in celebrating the 30th anniversary
of the founding of our Party, we must express o
thanks to Comrade Mao Tse-tung. our leader. We
salute our leader, Comrade Mao Tse-tung

The victory of our Party and the Chinese revolution is inseparable from the gallant 24 years'
struggle of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army.
Founded and instructed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung
himself, the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army has
fought for 24 years under his personal command
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army is the major
instrument with which our Party and the Chinese
people have triumphed over imperialism. feudallsm
and bureaucratic capitalism and have founded the
People's Republic of China. Without the 24 years
of gallant fighting and selfless work on the part of
all the commanders, fighters and other personnel of
the People's Liberation Army, our Party and the
Chinese people could not possibly have won their
present victory. Similarly, without the brave fight
of the Chinese peoples volunteers alongside the
Korean People's Army on the Korean front, it would
be impossible to resist and repulse American and
British imperialist aggression against China and
Korea.

Therefore, in celebrating the 30th anniversary of
the founding of our Party, we must express our
thanks to the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the
Chinese people's volunteers in Korea and the Korean
Peoples Army. We salute all the commanders,
fighters, workers in the rear services and other personnel in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the
Chinese people's volunteers in Korea and the Korean
Peoples Army!

The victory of our Party and the Chinese revolution is inseparable from the long-term, arduous
work and brave struggle of our Party's numerous
cadres and members; it is inseparable from the support for and trust in our Party and the People's
Liberation Army of the broad masses of workers and
peasants and revolutionary people of other strata and
their heroic efforts in the revolutionary struggles; it
is inseparable from the co-operation and assistance
given to our Party by the other Chinese democratic
parties and non-party democratic patriots in the
struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism and in the various kinds of work
for building up the new China.

Obviously, without all these, our Party and the
Chinese people could not possibly have won their
present victory; nor could we possibly build up the
new China after this victory was obtained.

Therefore, in celebrating the 30th anniversary of
the founding of our Party, we should express our
thanks to the numerous cadres and Party members
who devote themselves to the work and have fought
with courage! We should express our thanks to the
labouring masses of workers and peasants and the
revolutionary people of other strata who have supported and trusted our Party and the People's Liberation Army in the revolutionary struggle and in production. We should express our thanks to the democratic parties and democrats who have provided
our Party with sincere co-operation and assistance
in the revolutionary struggle and the work of construction.

Finally, the reason for the victory of our Party
and the Chinese revolution which is even more unforgettable to us is the influence on China of the
Russian October Revolution, the influence on the
Chinese revolution of the theories of proletarian
Socialist revolution and Marxism-Leninism created
and developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin,
the sympathy and assistance to the Chinese revolution given by the Soviet Union and the proletariat
and working people of the various countries of the
world. Comrade Mao Tse-tung has said:

Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only unaware of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx and Engels. The salvoes of the October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism. The October Revolution helped the advanced people of China and of the whole world adopt a proletarian outlook as the instrument for looking into a nation's future and for considering one's own problems. To follow the path of the Russians was the conclusion.

He has also said:

'"The Chinese found Marxism-Leninism, a universal
truth which is applicable anywhere. The face of China then began to change."

Clearly the theories of
Marxism-Leninism brought to
China by the Russian October
Revolution are the most fundamental weapon with which
our Party and the Chinese
people defeated their enemies
and achieved victory in the
revolution. Without the October Revolution in Russia,
without the creation and
constant development of
Marxism-Leninism by Marx,
Engels, Lenin and Stalin,
without the sympathy and
assistance for the Chinese
revolution given by the Soviet
Union and the proletariat and
countries of the world, it
would have been impossible
for our Party and the Chinese
working people of the various
people to achieve such a victory as the present.

Therefore, in celebrating the 30th anniversary of
the founding of our Party, we cannot but express
thanks to the heroes of the October Revolution, to
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, to the Soviet Union
and the proletariat and working people of the various
countries of the world who sympathised with and
assisted the Chinese revolution.

Salute the heroes of the October Revolution!
Salute Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin! Salute the
Soviet Union and the proletariat and working people
of the various countries of the world!

We have already said that the victory of our
party and the Chinese revolution has many profound
and complicated causes in the development of the
history of both the world and of China. Some of our
comrades do not understand or do not fully understand these profound and complicated causes of the
victory of our Party and the Chinese revolution;
they think that this victory was simply due to their
own individual efforts. They thus arrogantly plume
themselves on their achievements and betray other
wrong views. These comrades should be taught the
history of world revolution and the Chinese revolution, so that their field of vision can be broadened
and their arrogance and, other wrong views corrected.
COMRADES! Through 30 years of hard, intricate
and circuitous struggle, our Party and the
Chinese people have gained a victory of great
historical significance. But, as Comrade Mao Tse-tung has said, the victory we have so far achieved
is "only the first step of a 10,000-li march." The Chinese revolution is far from complete. The view that
the Chinese revolution has been completed is non-proletarian and utterly wrong. The revolutionary war
we have carried out is also not yet finished. China's
Taiwan has not been liberated, the Chinese people's
volunteers are still heroically
resisting the aggressive army
of the American and British
imperialists on the Korean
,fronts, the feudal forces in
China have also not yet been
finally cleared out. The difficult but great task of national
economic and cultural construction is at our feet and is
waiting for us to complete it;
but day by day the imperialists and their lackeys are plotting to sabotage our cause
and resume their sway.
Therefore we still have to
carry on long-term, intricate
and hard struggles to safeguard and consolidate the victory we have already gained,
complete the task of New
Democratic construction and
enable China to transform itself from an agricultural
country into an industrial
country, and then later to go
on to a Socialist and Communist society and ultimately abolish all classes and
arrive at world Communism.

Because of this, Comrade Mao Tse-tung has said:

"The Chinese revolution is great, but the path to
be traversed after the revolution will be even longer,
the work will be even greater and more difficult."

Hence Comrade Mao Tse-tung calls on us to

"make our comrades continuously maintain the
modest, cautious, unconceited and patient style of
working and to continue to uphold the spirit of hard
struggle."

Only by heeding these precepts laid down by
Comrade Mao Tse-tung and by further studying
Marxist-Leninist theory and Comrade Mao Tse-tung's
theories and style of work can we draw in still
broader masses of the people to fulfill the still greater
and harder revolutionary tasks that lie ahead of us.

It is to this end that all of us Party members
should exert our efforts as we celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the founding of our Party. We believe that the Party, tempered by the great revolutionary struggles of the past 30 years, and under the
continuing leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-tung and
the Central Committee of the Party, with the sustained efforts of the whole Party and the people throughout the country, will surely be able to accomplish
the still more arduous, the still greater and more
glorious tasks ahead of us.

Long live the great, glorious and consistently
correct Communist Party of China!

Long live Comrade Mao Tse-tung, creator and
leader of our Party, organiser and leader of the victory of the Chinese people's revolution!

Long live the victory of Marxism-Leninism in
China and the world!

Long live the great revolutionary solidarity of
the Chinese people, the revolutionary United Front
of all nationalities, all democratic classes, all democratic parties and groups and democrats of China!